Show II Wilkes i es Players a ers in in The e en ri i ii I I Ii i J II j jI I I d' d I I I g EJ I Ii I 1 s i 5 I e g I 4 11 k f I YAI ALT p U ry B Z f Syr k S J Y tl L Three Throe of the popular members of the Wilkes Pla Players ers Miss Thorne and Van Pelt are new members this year and Mr Mr Thompson is one one f popular players from last season HAT Salt Lake has a mighty might y T THAT warm place in its heart for th the ye e stock company at th the Wilkes V was pretty thoroughly evident eviden t I last week when the Wilkes Player Players s made their first appearance of the present present present pres pres- ent season at the Wilkes I d Now comes the second week weel of th the e et season with the announcement that tha t I The Spendthrift has been selected fo foi r production beginning with tonight tonight's rs s performance and continuing throughout through out the ensuing week with matinees o on n Thursday and Saturday afternoons Manager Ketcham would have found foun d it difficult to select a play that will offer offer of offer of- of fer the members of the company greater great great- er opportunities for tor distinctive individual individual individual ual acting than this problem from the pen of Porter Emerson Brown It is the old old story of an extravagant extra a gant and pretty wife who cannot unu un that her husband is not made of money She spends prodigiously and recklessly despite his protests with the result that she almost succeeds succeeds succeeds suc suc- in wrecking her home her own life and her l husbands She becomes involved with a wealthy friend of ot her husbands husband's in an effort to help him out of the difficulty she gets the household into and her escapade with the tho wealthy friend terminates in an intensely dramatic dramatic dramatic dra dra- matic scene in her bedroom at midnight I when hen the husband forces her to decoy the wealthy friend to her home I play is in four acts and Miss Missi Bryant leading woman oman of th the J V r rI Players will be seen In the ro rot rol I Frances Ward War I the extravagant i It will afford Miss 1 Bryant one oneo of finest opportunities for emotional j Ing she has ever had had- hadin in Salt L Lake The role of Richard Ward the they V It band will be played be-played played by Ralph Cl CI I ger the new leading man of the TV W company and this will be really q I first opportunity to tOll tois t the caliber of dramatic work orl that tha 1 I him so popular in the Northwest is a part that calls for careful p p pre I tion and Mr portra looked forward to expectantly tb 1 host of friends he has made madea nt t Wilkes during the past week J 1 The other members of the OO cO cora t who will appear In fn the cast Of Spendthrift includes Cliff Tl Th son Mae Thorne Ralph nie Russell Claire Sinclair Erne Ernes Pelt and Frederick Moore 31 Beginning tonight The SP Spend ld will run throughout the week it N oi matinees on Thursday and Satu i tI It The play will be staged und and rid direction of Huron L. L Blyden d 1 for the Wilkes Players and so som unusual effects are looked for P m In the boudoir scene in tM the li 1 e act h M V |